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Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php

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1 MEMORIES - WORD PICTURES TENDER ONES AND PRECIOUS ONES - SOME BROUGHT TO US BY OUR GRAND- PARENTS, UNCLES, AUNTS AND COUSINS - THEIR HOMES WERE FILLED WITH OLD COUNTRY FURNISHINGS, SOME CAME AROUND THE HORN - THIS ENVIRONMENT BROUGHT QUESTIONS, HENCE ANSWERS. IT WAS EXCITING, AS WELL AS INFORMATIVE - THE WORLD GLOBE IN FATHER'S LIBRARY WAS CONSTANTLY REFERRED TO - OUR FIRST LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. GRANDMOTHER DOCKWEILER MANY TIMES RELATED HOW SHE WOULD LEAVE THREE-YEAR LD "ISIDORE" AT THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY HOME ON MACY STREET WHILE SHE DID HER SHOPPING - PERHAPS THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL RECORD OF "BABY SITTING" IN LOS ANGELES. THESE DEDICATED DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY ARRIVED HERE IN 1856. IN LATER YEARS OUR FATHER WAS TO MEET OUR MOTHER AT AN ANNUAL FAIR GIVEN BY THESE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY IN BOYLE HEIGHTS. MARY FOY, OUR BELOVED FOUNDER OF THE FIRST CENTURY FAMILIES, WAS TOLD TO INTRODUCE A YOUNG ENGLISH GIRL, GERTRUDE REEVE, TO HER FRIENDS - OUR FATHER WAS ONE OF THEM - THEIR ROMANCE BLOSSOMED THERE. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW, [written in pencil above line: their] THIS OFFSPRING WOULD NUMBER ELEVEN. TODAY A TABLE IS OCCUPIED BY SOME DAUGHTERS OF CHAIRYT - IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR BELOVED PARENTS - AND THE CON- TINUED DEVOTION OF OUR FAMILY TO THE VINCENTIAN ORDER. VERY EARLY MOTHER TAUGHT ROSARIO AND ME TO SEW - DOLLS WERE DRESSED FOR THE ORPHANAGE - WHAT A JOY IT WAS TO GIVE THESE -1-